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🏆 Final Top 10 of the 2026 edition of Paris-Roubaix Hauts-de-France 🪨

🏆 Le Top 10 final de ce Hauts-de-France 2026 🪨

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2026 Tour de France schedule 🇫🇷

Don't forget to put your clocks forward 1 hour tonight for a early morning ride tomorrow 😀

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Plummeting profits, declining sales, layoffs: the word cloud that surrounds major bike brands right now makes for rather dreary reading.

In the last couple of weeks, two of the industry’s biggest companies have shared worrying annual results; Giant’s post-tax profits slumped 42% year-on-year in 2025, while Canyon’s EBITDA (a benchmark of profitability that stands for earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) fell 34% in the same period.

Stories about other brands paint a similar picture. Trek’s 50-year anniversary this year has come not with celebration, but concern about the brand’s future, according to a report in Escape Collective, with sales targets slipping and notices of redundancies. Likewise, Shimano, the world’s most popular bike components brand, has endured three years in a row of tumbling profits across its cycling range.

These figures provide a snapshot of a market in distress. So what’s the context behind it all? Why are bike brands struggling so much at the moment?

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😈 For its 123rd edition, the Hell of the North will offer riders 258.3 km, including 54.8 km on cobbles on April 12!

🔎 The sequence of the opening sectors has been modified to return to a layout already tested in 2024, where the first four sectors follow one another in quick succession, which blew the race wide open!

😈 Pour sa 123ème édition, l'Enfer du Nord proposera 258,3 km aux coureurs dont 54,8 sur les pavés le 12 Avril !

🔎 L'ordonnancement des premiers secteurs est modifié pour retrouver un schéma expérimenté en 2024 avec 4 premiers secteurs très rapprochés qui avaient dynamité la course !

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Cycling UK is calling for an awareness campaign to ensure all road users understand and follow the new rules.

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🤩 Here are the 23 teams set to line up for the start of the on July 4th in Barcelona! 🤩
🤩 Voici les 23 équipes qui prendront le départ du le 4 juillet prochain à Barcelone 🤩

1️⃣8️⃣ UCI WorldTeams. 🌎

➡ 🇨🇭 Tudor Pro Cycling Team, 🇨🇭 Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team et 🇫🇷 Team Cofidis, directly qualified / qualifiées de droit.

➡ 🇫🇷 Team TotalEnergies et 🇪🇸 Caja Rural Seguros RGA, invited by organizers / invitées par l'organisation.

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The organisers of the UK’s Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift Grands Départs in 2027 have said securing free-to-air television coverage of the stages is “important” and negotiations are “a work in progress”.

Both races currently sit behind a paywall in the UK, after TNT Sports owner Warner Bros. Discovery signed an exclusive broadcasting deal last year that ended 40 years of free-to-air coverage. A TNT Sports subscription costs £30.99 a month.

Speaking during a press conference in Leeds on Thursday, the managing director of the UK Grand Départ, Paul Bush, said he and his fellow organisers “have a commitment to work with Christian [Prudhomme, Tour de France race director] and the A*O team to look at how we can bring the six stages in the UK to free-to-air coverage, and that is currently ongoing.”

Cycling Weekly then questioned Bush further on the matter. “It’s still a work in progress,” he said. “I would hope that in the next six months we can reach some sort of conclusion on that. I think it’s important, Christian knows it’s important, but obviously contractual situations with current rights holders need to be negotiated carefully and sympathetically.”

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🚨Mark your 2026 cycling calendar (Grand Tours and more than 1-day stage races)
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🗓️🚴‍♂️ 2026 | List of Grand Tours and ≥2.1 stage races

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The 2027 Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift will be hosted by 10 towns and cities across Great Britain during their historic Grands Départ next year, it was revealed on Thursday.

The men's race was last year announced to be starting in Edinburgh before heading south, while it was confirmed this week that the women's race will start in Leeds before two more stages in England. It will be the first time both Tours have started in the same foreign country in the same year.

Starting on Friday 2 July, the 2027 Tour de France will have stages from Edinburgh to Carlisle, Keswick to Liverpool and Welshpool to Cardiff, before the race returns to its home country. It will pass through the Lake District, Peak District and Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) on its way south.

The 2027 Tour de France Femmes will begin in Leeds on Friday 30 July with a stage to Manchester, before stage two heads back across the Pennines to Sheffield, before a "showpiece stage" in London on day three. It will pass through the Peak District en route.

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Simon Yates, winner of the Giro d’Italia in 2025 and Vuelta a Espana in 2018, has decided to end his career with immediate effect.